OverDrive, which offers 150,000 downloadable audiobooks, e-books, video and music titles, reported that it registered approximately 5.3 million checkouts of digital material from the 8,500 libraries that used its service in 2008, a 76% increase over in 2007.
More
As we enter a new year, I thought it appropriate to reflect on the past and look toward the future i...
Sponsored by:
PW PARTNERS
PW Marketplace
PW Video
Now Playing: 50 Under 40: Ben Greenberg In this Turn Here video, hip Grand Central editor Ben Greenberg talks about the ins and outs of acquiring books by politicians, comedians and other figures that come to books with a following. More Videos >>
BEYOND HER BOOK Barbara Vey, Contributing Editor, Publishers Weekly January 6, 2009 Conferences Galore
Well, the 2009 conference schedule is on the calendar...kind of. I have the f... More
SARA NELSON Sara Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, January 5, 2009 Not Again!
It is a truism about holidays that they can be hell on families: those crazy ... More
GENREVILLE Rose Fox, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Horror Reviews Editor, Publishers Weekly January 5, 2009 Book Trailers
I've been intrigued by the idea of book trailers for a while, but I have yet to see o... More
MIST PLACE Rick Simonson, Bookseller, November 7, 2008 Reconstituting
Two days after the November 2004 election, the bookstore I work at (Elliott Bay) pres... More
THE BOOK MAVEN Bethanne Patrick, The Book Maven - Contributing Editor, October 24, 2008 Hail and Farewell
That's my Mini Cooper over there, getting ready to zip off to my next adventure. Mr... More
Not Again!
It is a truism about holidays that they can be hell on families: those crazy relatives whose peccadilloes you can defend from a distance all year long are suddenly in your face, and harder to take. So it was for me last week when I heard the news—first reported by Gabriel Sherman in the New Republic,
though rumors of the story have been circulating on the Internet for some time—tha... read on
Feature: Travel Issue: February 9, 2009 Deadline: January 6, 2009
For more information, click here.
Feature: Crafts Issue: February 9, 2009 Deadline: Janury 6, 2009
For more information, click here.
Feature: Spring/Summer First Fiction Issue: January 26 Deadline: December 5
For more information, click here.
Feature: Spring 2009 Children's Announcements Issue: February 16, 2009 Listings Deadline: December 3, 2008 Art Deadline: January 12, 2009
For more information, click here.